The modern mansion in central Tehran that houses Iran's Prime Minister
looked like a fortress under siege. Heavily armed Revolutionary Guards
and machine gun-equipped Jeeps ringed the building; sharpshooters
carrying G-3 automatic rifles were poised behind sandbags on the roof.
Inside the compound, on the second story of a modern administrative
annex, President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad
Bahonar were attending a meeting so secret that its time and place had
not been made public. The agenda: how to improve...